How Not to Say What You Mean unmasks the language of hypocrisy,
evasion, prudery, and deceit. This hugely entertaining collection
highlights our tendency to use mild, vague, or roundabout expressions
in preference to words that are precise, blunt, and often uncomfortably
accurate.

Entries, drawn from all aspects of life: work, sexuality, age, money, and
politics, provide the real meaning for well-known phrases such as above
your ceiling, gardening leave, rest and recreation, count the daisies,
God's waiting room, washed up, and fact-finding mission.

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